AJAX no refreshing when non "active" window?

[RCK]

Anyone else notice that AJAX suddenly doesn't seem to refresh when smr isnt the active window? (ie your typing in irc, ajax isnt refreshing )

[Freon22]

I think I remember seeing some of the javascript code, that I downloaded. I believe he is using focus in the re-fresh so if the page loses focus it doesn't re-fresh.

[Infinity]

It was never supposed to be refreshing when the window is out of focus, it's just that browsers are flawed and dont always follow instructions.

[RCK]

LOL, so the browsers finally fixed themselves? well thats unfortunate

[Page]

No, I think it was just Chrome that didn't work the same, although I did mostly test in FF back when I wrote the code, but it changed because I found an alternative method to make it work since it was loading the server a lot more than necessary (the AJAX does tax the server as it's the same as a full page load for the server). When I first wrote the AJAX there weren't all that many Chrome users, it was either still in beta or only just released a few days beforehand, so I never noticed it was behaving differently until Spock told me the server was working a lot harder than we'd expect it to.

As a point of reference since fixing this there have been anywhere from 100,000-200,000 less page loads to handle per day (mostly at the higher end of that range, or roughly 35-40% less work per day).

[Infinity]

You fixed Safari too, just fyi.